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Cable Sands Operations

Producer in Western Australia, Australia with commodities Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Zirconium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Ore body information
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Reserves and resources
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10304739
MAS/MILS ID 6020550042
Record type Site
Current site name Cable Sands Operations
Alternate or previous names West Capel, Prowse Orebody, Bassendean Strand, Bassendean Raised Shoreline, Jangardup, Cable Sands, Pty. Ltd, Bassendean Sands

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: 115.54933, -33.56267 (WGS84)
Elevation 5
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Western Australia(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Western Australia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Titanium Critical Primary
Zirconium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) 115.54933, -33.56267
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N00E
    Dip 00W
    Depth to top 7M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Strike And Dip N00E:00W
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 840117
  • Area 2000HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 2000
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Comments on the geologic information

  • OTHER MINERALS PRESENT,BUT NOT LISTED IN DATA BASE TABLES ARE: LEUCOXENE, XENOTIME AND QUARTZ. QUARTZ IS A GANGUE MATERIAL.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1950
Mining method Dredging
Milling method Magnetic And Electrostatic

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Kathleen Investments (Australia) Ltd.
    Interest 100
    Home office Australia
    Year 1982
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Cable Sands
    Home office Australia
    Year 1982
  • Type Owner
    Owner Nissho Iwai Corp
    Interest 100
    Home office Japan
    Year 1991
  • Type Operator
    Owner Cable Sands
    Home office Australia
    Year 1991

Comments on the production information

  • DEV. 2: LINE 1 IS ILMENITE; LINE 2 IS HIGH GRADE ILMENITE; LINE 3 IS LEUCOXENE; L4 IS ZIRCON; L5 IS RARE EARTH MONAZITE.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1994
    Measured 35000000mt ore
    Demonstrated 35000000mt ore
    Total resources 35000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Titanium TiO2 0.05 wt-pct Titanium Major 1994

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • JANGARDUP RESERVES ARE PUBLISHED TO BE 35 MILLION MT OF ABOUT 5% HM.
  • TOTAL CABLE SANDS. GRADE GIVEN AS 8.46% HEAVY MINERALS. *M3, C1 - MINNINUP BEACH SANDS. GRADE GIVEN AS 22.13% HEAVY MINERALS. *M3, C2 - MINNINUP DUNES. GRADE GIVEN AS 8.97% HEAVY MINERALS. *M4, C1 - WAROONA NORTH (MACHIN). GRADE GIVEN AS 11.8% HEAVY MINERALS. *M4, C2 - WAROONA SOUTH (TOGNELLA). GRADE GIVEN AS 12.69% HEAVY MINERALS. *M4, C3 - WAROONA SOUTH (JONES). GRADE GIVEN AS 12.04% HEAVY MINERALS. *M5, C1 - BUSSELTON EAST. GRADE GIVEN AS 9.1% HEAVY MINERALS. *M6, C1 - SCOTT RIVER. GRADE GIVEN AS 6.95% HEAVY MINERALS. *M7, C1 - JANGARDUP. GRADE GIVEN AS 7.04% HEAVY MINERALS. *M7, C2 - JANGARDUP SOUTH. GRADE GIVEN AS 11.6% HEAVY MINERALS. *M8, C1 - YARLOOP. GRADE GIVEN AS 14.3% HEAVY MINERALS. *M9, C1 - WONNERUP. GRADE GIVEN AS 27.6% HEAVY MINERALS.
  • INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING MINES AND DEPOSITS: WONNERUP MINE, MINNINUP DUNES MINE (DEPLETED IN 1990), WAROONA NORTH MINE (AKA MACHIN)(DEPLETED), WAROONA SOUTH MINE (TOGNELLA), BUSSELTON EAST (STARTUP IN LATE 1990), WAROONA SOUTH DEPOSIT (JONES), HOPELANDS DEPOSIT, SCOTT RIVER DEPOSIT, JANGARDUP/JANGARDUP SO. DEPOSITS, AND YARLOOP DEPOSIT. OPERATIONS WERE SITE VISITED 6/90. REO GRADE IS MONAZITE. MINNIUP IS FULLY RESTORED. BUSSELTON EAST BEGAN OPERATION IN 6/91. WAROONA SOUTH WAS STILL PRODUCING IN 1992. WONNERUP WAS PRODUCING A LITTLE BIT IN 1992 FINISHED IN MID 1993.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2000HA
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Capacity 6000
    Unit Production Cost 2.84
    Operating Days per Year 312
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1982
  • Type of workings Surface
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 2
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Mining Method STRIP-LEVEL
    Percent Waste Rock 91
    Avg. Overburden Thickness 5
    Primary Material Cover SAND, SILT
    Percentage 100
    Hardness of Ore SAND, SILT
    Capacity 9589
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 2.94
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 365
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1990
  • Type of workings Surface
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 2
    Mining Record # 7
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Mining Method DREDGING
    Capacity 7200
    Capacity Units CU-M ORE/DAY
    Year of Information 1994
  • Type of workings Water
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 2
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Mining Method HYDRAULIC DREDGE-SW
    Percent Waste Rock 91
    Percent Recovery 100
    Primary type of Cover NO OVERBURDEN
    Hardness of ore SAND, SILT
    Avg. Overburden Thickness .1
    Pre-Production Stripping 0
    Dist. to Port Facilities 15
    General Remarks MINNINUP DEPOSIT
    Capacity 4315
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Operating Days per Year 365
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Operating Hours per Day 24
    Year of Information 1990

Comments on the workings information

  • COMPANY DOES COMPLETE REHABILITATION AND RESTORATION WORK AT ALL SITES.

Comments on other economic factors

  • JANGARDUP DREDGE CAN YIELD 300 BANK CUBIC METERS PER HOUR.
  • ASSUMED THE LAT. AND LONG. IN MILS, CONCENTRATOR, AND TRANSPORTATION IS THAT OF THE DRY PLANT IN BUNBURY.
  • INVESTMENT AT JANGARDUP WAS $40 MILLION WITH $30 MILLION SPENT AT THE MINE SITE AND THE BALANCE ON DOUBLING CAPACITY AT THE BUNBURY PROCESSING PLANT.
  • JANGARDUP DEPOSIT BEGAN PRODUCTION IN MID-1994. JANGARDUP WILL PRODUCE AT 270,000 TPY HMC WITH A MINE LIFE OF 9 YEARS. THE ILMENITE CONTAINS 60% TIO2.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    *AUSTRALIA'S MINING MONTHLY, JULY 1994, P. 7. "JANGARDUP

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNDER WAY."

  • Workings

    AUSTRALIA'S MINING MONTHLY, APRIL 1994, P. 97. "KRUPP-O&K

  • Workings

    DREDGE AT JANGARDUP SAND MINE."

  • Deposit

    WELLA,B.K. ; SOFOULIS J. ; FITZGERALD, A.C.F. "MINERAL SANDS

  • Deposit

    DEPOSITS OF THE CAPEL AREA W.A." ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF

  • Deposit

    AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALASIAN

  • Deposit

    INSTITUE OF MINING AND METALLURGY. MONOGRAPH,SER.5,

  • Deposit

    BAXTER, JOHN L. "MINERAL SANDS." MINING IN WESTERN

  • Deposit

    AUSTRALIA UNIVERSITY OF W. AUSTRALIAN PRESS, 1979,

  • Deposit

    PP. 111-14, 116, 118

  • Deposit

    CABLE SANDS PTY. LTD. "MINERALS TO THE WORLD."

  • Deposit

    SOBSON'S MINING YEAR BOOK FOR 1981. "CABLE SANDS PTY.

  • Deposit

    LIMITED." P.313.

  • Deposit

    NEWMAN,P.W.; SCANLON, T.J. "DRY MINERAL SAND SEPARATION

  • Deposit

    PLANT OF CABLE SANDS PTY. LTD. BUNBURY, W.A." MINING

  • Deposit

    AUSTRALIA. PUB.: UNIV. OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA PRESS,1979.

  • Deposit

    MAURICE MAWY MEMORIAL VOLUME. MONOGRAPH SERIES NO. 10.

  • Deposit

    1980. PUB: THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND

  • Deposit

    METALLURGY.

  • Deposit

    PIONEER CONCRETE SERVICES LIMITED. "25TH ANNUAL REPORT 1981"

  • Deposit

    MINING AND METALLURGICAL PRACTICES IN AUSTRALASIA.

  • Deposit

    MONOGRAPH SERIES 10. AUS. 1MM 1978, PP.742-3.

  • Deposit

    JACKSON, COLIN G. "DRY MINERAL SAND SEPARATION PLANT OF

  • Deposit

    ASSOCIATED MINERALS CONSOLIDATED LTD., CAPEL, W.A."

  • Deposit

    SAME PUBLISHER AS REF. ON LINE 16-19 ON THIS LIST

  • Deposit

    BRACANIN, BRIAN F.; CLEMENTS, RONALD, J. ; DAVEY, JOHN M.

  • Deposit

    PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC RUTILE, FERUTIL

  • Deposit

    AND SPONGE IRON." PROC. AUSTRALAS. INST. MIN. METALL.

  • Deposit

    NO. 275, SEPTEMBER 1980. PP. 33-42.

  • Deposit

    JOBSON'S MINING YEARBOOK-1981, P.300.

  • Deposit

    AUSTRALIAN MINING YEAR BOOK - 1981, P. 133.

  • Deposit

    REGISTER OF AUSTRALIAN MINING. P.110.

  • Deposit

    REAVELEY,BERNARD J. "SYNTHETIC RUTILE PRODUCTION AT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOTE: SINCE LEUCOXENE IS NOT IN THE DATA BASE, IT IS PRESENTED IN THIS EVALUATION AS TIO2. AND SINCE MONAZITE IS NOT IN THE SYSTEM EITHER, IT IS PRESENTED AS PHOSPHATE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-1995 Dab/Kaiser U.S. Bureau of Mines

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